The Case for Mark Composed in Performance

by Wire, Antoinette Clark

• ISBN13: 9781608998586
• ISBN10: 1608998584
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Cascade Books

Summary

Is it possible to make a case that the Gospel of Mark was not composed by a single man from scattered accounts but in a process of people's telling Jesus' story over several decades? And what can we say about the tellers who were shaping this story for changing audiences?

Author Biography

Antoinette Clark Wire is Professor of New Testament Emerita at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Her writings include The Corinthian Women Prophets: A Reconstruction through Paul's Rhetoric and Holy Lives, Holy Deaths: A Close Hearing of Early Jewish Storytellers.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Written Text of Mark: External Evidence of Composition in Performance	p. 21
Mark Found in the Christian Canon	p. 25
Mark Found in Manuscript	p. 31
Mark Found in Writing: the Setting	p. 41
Mark Found in Writing: the Event	p. 53
Mark Found in Greek	p. 60
Language, Scenes, and Story Patterns: Internal Evidence of Composition in Performance	p. 71
The Language of Mark as Performance Tradition	p. 73
Language as Parataxis and the Continuing Kai	p. 80
Language as Simple Diction and Spoken Discourse	p. 85
The Scenes of Mark as Performance Tradition	p. 90
Scenes of Action: Exorcism, Healing and Controversy	p. 92
Scenes of Vision: A Voice from Heaven and the Mortal Coming on the Clouds	p. 101
The Story Pattern of Mark as Performance Tradition	p. 110
Story Pattern as Conflict in Process	p. 123
Story Pattern as Report of a Prophet's Sign	p. 128
Soundings in Mark	p. 135
"Who Is This?"	p. 139
"God's Kingdom Is Arriving!"	p. 150
"And They Said Nothing to Anyone"	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 175
Who Is Telling? Two Scenarios	p. 177
Findings in the Case	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 195
Index of Ancient Documents	p. 209
Index of Modern Authors	p. 217
Index of Subjects	p. 220
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